Surpies! Texan Pie Expert Embraces Disaster on the Road to the Perfect Pie

On Sunday, redditor Mariahmine—the culinary mastermind behind Texas home bakery Surpies!—dazzled Reddit’s Food community with a mouth-watering gallery of perfect pies featuring ingredients and designs that, true to the bakery’s name, might come as a surprise.

Reddit user Mariahmine

Mariah includes lavender, Fruity Pebbles, pepitas, Junior Mints, and caramel corn in her arsenal of pie toppings, while her designs include maple-leaf crust cutouts, apple slices shaped like rose petals, and, in one particularly expressive pie, an embossed top resembling the back side of a pair of jorts.

Reddit user Mariahmine

As pie fans and aspiring bakers alike drooled in unison to Mariah’s gallery, the baker held an AMA (Ask Me Anything) to explain how she runs her home bakery—and to share the hard-earned kitchen wisdom she’s gained perfecting her craft.

“I get a lot of frustration and four-letter words out in the kitchen,” she writes in a comment, “and the feeling I get when I share pie with friends and strangers alike always makes the work worth it.”

Her mantra?

“The perfect pie is the imperfect one. Cheesy, but true.”

For her business, however, Mariah’s tagline is a bit less sappy. As her Instagram reads, “‘I love you.’ ‘I’m sorry.’ ‘Happy birthday!’ ‘I want to have your babies.’ For all the times you can’t quite find the words — Say it with pie.”

For more slices of wisdom, check out the highlights from her AMA below.

To read s’more of Mariah’s answers to redditors’ questions, head over to the original AMA discussion in the Food community. You can follow Surpies! on Instagram, if you don’t mind drool on your keyboard and grumbles emanating from your belly for the rest of your days.